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Job Title Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Job Title Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology

One Children's Hospital Drive
4401 Penn Ave.

Pittsburgh, PA 15224

412-692-9433 Phone

412-692-8036 Fax

Email ghazia@pitt.edu

Graduate School:	2001 PhD, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR), Bangalore, India
Fellowship:	2007 Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California (UCSF), San Francisco, CA

2006-09 Larry L. Hillblom Foundation for Aging Postdoctoral Research Grant
2004 Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist Award
2003-05 American Federation for Aging Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
2002-04 Scientific Advisory Board Assistant, Science of Aging Knowledge Environment
1999 WoodWhelan Research Fellowship, International Union of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists
1999 Journal of Cell Science Fellowship, Company of Biologists
1998 Surdna Foundation Scholarship, Marine Biological Laboratory
1995 31st Rank All India Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering conducted by the Indian Institutes of Technology (ITT)
1994 Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India, Summer Research Fellowship
1993 Department of Biotechnology, India, Scholarship
1993 Valedictorian, St. Ann's College, Osmania University, Hyderbad, India

Ghazi, A, Korenblit, S, & Kenyon, C. TCER-1, a transcription elongation factor that extends lifespan in response to signals from the reproductive system. PLoS Genetics, 5(9), e1000639. 2009.
Recommended by Faculty of 1000: http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1163908/evaluation.
Ghazi, A*, Korenblit, S*, & Kenyon, C. Regulation of Caenorhabditis elegans lifespan by a proteasomal E3 ligase complex. Proc. National Academy of Science USA, 104(14): 5947-5952. 2007. *equal contribution.
Focus of Dispatch Article: C. elegans Aging. Proteolysis cuts both ways. Bruce Bowerman Current Biology 17(13): R514-16. 2007.
Ghazi, A, Paul, L, & Vijayraghavan, K. Pre-pattern genes and signaling molecules regulate stripe expression to specifiy Drosophila flight muscle attachment sites. Mech. of Development, 120, 519-552. 2003.
Ghazi, A, & Vijayraghavan, K. Control of gene-expression by combinatorial computing on DNA. Nature, 408, 419-420. 2000.
Ghazi, A, Anant, S, & Vijayraghavan, K. Apterous mediates development of direct flight muscles autonomously and indirect flight muscles through epidermal cues. Development, 127(24), 5309-5318. 2000.

View Dr. Ghazi's full list of publications from PubMed.